Candy Crush Saga level 990

Use the fish as soon as possible as they will often take out a bomb for you as well as unlocking colour bombs etc.

Once the board is opened up look for colour bomb patterns and other special candies.. There are plenty of moves in level 990 so no need to worry about that, just getting to the bombs at the start can be tricky.

Third try, thought I would spend days on trying to get rid of an enormous amount of bombs then a stripe/wrap combo started a nice cascade which got rid of a lot of bombs. Tephe rest is history, the game played itself. Good luck, and don't forget....stripe-wrapm combo ;););)And looooved the 1,740,000 points too ;);)

Flew through levels 984-989, then I hit this one. Burned through 15 lives and haven't made it past 15 moves. Always have more bombs at 14th move than hammers to clear them. Tried various methods on this board. Wanted to stay on one side to create more strips but always forced back to top and having to waste moves. This is one of those boards I'd like to have a shuffle option. So now I sit waiting for friends to send me lives and hoping lucky board shows up soon.

Same situation as Crushed. Can't get past move 15. Been close several times with one bomb left on one-move countdown but couldn't deal with it, no hammers left. Waiting for a lucky board I suppose, doesn't seem to be any particular strategy available. Alex

Have never posted, come for useful tips. Just had to say this was the funniest level ever. Hadn't read tips...first try, it looked daunting...finished with 32 moves left, after specials and cascades, 3,124,200 pts....hilarious.

I have now completed this level three times and STILL have not been moved forward to the next level. I even went to King's website, clicked "contact us", but that link does not work. What can I do to move on, so I can keep playing??

Hey Crushed, you don't have to wait for lives, if you are on a phone or iPad go to settings and set your clock forward 3 hours, after you put clock in manual mode, you will get 5 more lives. When you are finished moving the clock forward, be sure you have 5 lives total, press to play, on the game board, not the actual start of the game, go back and set your clock back to automatic. Learned that trick back in the first 100 levels 😀

I read this blog for tips on how others have passed difficult levels, I have no idea why any idiot would post here "showing off" about how they have passed using a booster. We can all pass using a booster!!! WELL DONE, YOU USED A BOOSTER. Try advising readers on how to pass without cheating. That's the fxckin point

What worked for me was a chance candy ball-striped candy combination. This got rid of all of the remaining bombs two moves before they were set to explode.

Using boosters is often the only advice one can give for some of these levels, and is a legitimate strategy unless you want to spend weeks or months on some of these levels. I only use the boosters I get from the daily spins and the sugar drops (my goal being not to pay) but if players want to buy boosters, that's their choice. On the other hand, except for the lollypop hammers and the red hands, the boosters don't usually help enough, which is why I currently have more than 100 of them.

And finally, anyone having come this far in the game has seen everything King has to offer and is quickly able to figure out what needs to be done. Doing it is the hard part. So there's not a lot of advice that we can give that you probably haven't figured out yourself. And with nothing else to do, we brag a little about our successes and moan a little about our struggles. Bottom line: the game is supposed to be fun. ;-)

I was lucky enough to get a color bomb with a green wrap and many of the bombs were green so the whole board blew up and it was fun, finished with 1.7 million. I hate the bombs but I have noticed that if you can switch out a bomb that is right under the bomb dispenser with a regular candy then no more bombs can drop... love that!!